Comment by Lazey

Maybe this list will help to find them.

List of the Master Fishers NPC IDs with the unique items you have to fish and throw back into water at their place to summon & kill something that drops currency or grants guarranteed currency catches for about 90 seconds:

Comment by serangel

what does the new rod look like?

Comment by Dementron

Based on my experience with Keeper Raynae so far, each Fisherfriend is definitely easier to get Exalted with than Margoss. Each turnin item gives 75 rep instead of 50, there are bosses to summon just like the elemental that will make every catch give you the turnin, while the buff is active you fish up 3-4 of the turnin instead of only 1-2, and each fisherfriend has fewer and cheaper items. Basically, it's exactly like Margoss, but faster.

Each fisherfriend is associated with one fishing area (the five zones and the ocean) and sells the fish for their area, each special bait for their area, a fishing bobber toy, and one other item.

Comment by Dementron

Based on my experience so far, each Fisherfriend is basically like Margoss, only they take about 2-3 hours in a raid to reach Best Friend and purchase all unique items from. Each turnin item gives 75 rep instead of 50, there are bosses to summon just like the elemental that will make every catch give you the turnin, while the buff is active you fish up 3-4 of the turnin instead of only 1-2, and each fisherfriend has fewer and cheaper items. You need to be close enough to the fisherfriend to have the Something's Fishy buff to catch the turnin or boss summoner. The boss's health goes up the more people hit it, but it does still seem to be more efficient to have as many people fighting as possible.

Sha'leth works differently than the others, however. In the lake next to her is a moving pool of fish, where you can fish up Golden Minnow and Glowing Fish Scale. Stand by Sha'leth and throw the scale to summon Magicus, which drops 20-50 minnows for everyone who tags it. Make sure to fish with your bobber starting in front of the pool, and try not to stand in it, because that can make it so you can't click your bobber. Note that Sha'leth sells the Sleeping Murloc, one of the best ways to gather Runescale Koi and to raise artifact power for your Underlight Angler. (When you use the murloc, try to stand somewhere clear, like a bridge, so you can see the fish, or very small, like the top of a pillar, so the murloc has nowhere to run. Other people CAN pick up the fish it drops, so if everyone is dropping them in the same spot, please try to contribute your fair share. If you pick up more fish than you can carry, the extras will be sent to your mailbox.)

Warning! When you turn in items for rep, the fisherfriend will take ALL of them, even if you are at max reputation already! Be very careful when near/at Best Friend.

There are six fisherfriends, and they rotate daily. So far there doesn't seem to be a way to tell which one is up besides looking for yourself or checking custom groups. Each fisherfriend is associated with one fishing area (the five zones and the ocean) and sells the fish for their area (10 for 10), each special bait for their area (25 each), a fishing bobber toy (100, Best Friend), and one other item (generally 50, Good Friend). Reaching Best Friend with all six grants Fisherfriend of the Isles, which gives Underlight Emerald, unlocking new tints for Underlight Angler.

Sha'leth - Meredil or Crimson Thicket (just outside Suramar on the Northern bridge close to Su'esh)

Impus - Deliverance Point (northern islelet of island to west, just past the shipwrecks)

Ilyssia - Illidari Stand (follow path to north-west, right side of road where the Sea Lion Ravyn-Drath sits on the beach to left)

Keeper - Lorlathil (pond to west)

Corbyn - Shield's Rest (raven on rock, half way between FP and sea)

Comment by Lionleaper

Do you have to have all the talents on Underlight Angler to even see these Master Fisher? Or is it enough with just having the Underlight Angler? Have been on all the locations and havent found one yet, missing 4 "talents" on my fishing pole before its maxed out.

Comment by Graknak

It might not be obvious for everyone, but this achievement is NOT account wide. If you want to use these recolours on any of your chars, you'll have to grind all the reputations on each individual character.

Comment by Armed4fun

After getting the achievement, Fisherfriend of the isles, the colors are still locked. Anyone else having this issue?

Comment by Lynkyn

Sha'leth in Suramar kind of sucks, there is a moving green pool, School of Golden Minnows, you have to fish from to catch the Golden Minnow. If you catch a Glowing Fish Scale you can summon Magicus who drops 20, 30, and on rare occasions 50 Golden Minnow. With the pool moving people often block your bobber and sometimes you just can't click it for some reason when something bites :( There are also Suramar Skyhunters flying overhead which also screw up your ability to keep an eye on your lure. So the moving people (other people fishing) moving pool, and Suramar Skyhunter all add to the aggrivation. I've had times when there was no loot from Magicus which is also a frustration :( . The best thing is to wait for someone to throw in a Glowing Fish Scale then DPS the boss and loot.

Comment by wowZhenek

This is arguably the most wortheless addition to the game blizz could've come up with. Shocking.

Comment by Maxiusthegnome

Just got this achievement tonight and low and behold, nothing happens. I got the letter in the mail with the Underlight Emerald and clicked on it to "use it". I heard a fizzle noise and that's it. Pole still looks the same with no color change and there no option to alter the color in anyway. What a waste of a week struggling to get this!

Comment by NyctophiliaRaven

So, I wanted to make some notes about the Fisher Friend of the Isles achieve. First of all... the fish feast recipe is... adorably useless. You can breathe like a fish and swim faster for five minutes. The well-fed buff and the swim buff both only last five minutes, and during that five minutes, you lose health while you're above water, so watch out for that... and that's pretty much all the fish feast does. Second... currently, because of the bonfire buff from Hallows End activities, it will take you roughly 1.5 hours in a raid to get to best friend status, and about another half hour to get the 150 extra bait to get you the bobbers and toys available from each fisherman. The achieve itself gives you a cosmetic change to your underlight angler that is pretty much invisible. Your choices are red, green, and blue... and none of them are animated. You get different colored eyes, and different colored string on your pole - the only time you'll see it is when you're adding a level at the pearl in Dalaran. However, the raids themselves are really socially enjoyable, so they're worth it for that. Also, if your fishing is low, it's a great way to level it, and each friend sells baits for the special fish that both give you fishing skill, and also get you your underlight angler fishing pole and add AP to that pole. So it's worth it for that.

A note about the raids themselves. Every fisher friend raid fishes for a special bait that summons a boss, which allows you to fish for the bait that the fisher friend wants. With the exception of Suramar, every fish boss functions like a flexraid boss - the more people attacking, the higher his HP. This means that in every raid but Suramar (I'll get to that in a second), there is someone, usually who can do over 1.5 mil damage, who is a designated hitter. Everyone else, when the boss is triggered, must fly up and out of the way to avoid getting dragged into the fight.

Suramar is the ONLY exception. With Suramar, everyone has to hit the boss, because you don't get the special bait to give the fisher friend unless you tag the boss. Suramar is an EXCELLENT place, however, to level your pole. Once someone has made best friends with the Suramar friend, it's pretty much part of the social contract that they continue fishing for at least one hour, and use their extra baits to buy Sleeping Murlocs. At the Suramar location is a pillar. Once the boss is down and everyone's collected their loot, we all go stand on the pillar (it's crowded) and people who are max friendship drop the Murlocs, which fill up your bag and your AP bar for your fishing pole REALLY fast. Because of the help you get before you're max friendship, it's part of the social contract that after you do, you'll stick around for about an hour to help everyone else the way you got help. I seriously recommend, because of how fast your bags will fill up (there's so many murlocs popping that because of lag, you simply cannot throw them all fast enough) that before you join the raid, you visit your bank and empty your bags as much as possible to make room for this one.

Suramar and Highmountain are the most difficult with mechanics. Suramar has a small pool that is always up, but it moves around the pond, and you have to chase it, which is... a pita. Highmountain, when the boss is downed and the buff is up, the only way to get the buff, and therefore fish up the special bait, is to stand on the boat between the fireworks. This means you cannot see where you're standing... there's just too many other people on the boat... it also means that flight during the buff is strictly discouraged.

Also, with Highmountain, even when you have flown up out of the boss fight, you may not fly high enough and will end up getting tagged anyway. It's important that at the Highmountain location, you fly ABOVE THE BRIDGE to avoid adding health to the boss.Finally, the fisher friends are on a six day cycle. There is one up every day, they're up all day. You can search under custom raids for "fisher" and will find two raids, usually - Margoss, and the daily fisher friend. The friends are on a rotation. For example - Highmountain always follows Val'Sharah. So, if you start with one, as long as you check in for 1.5 hours every day for six days, you'll have the achieve really fast.

This is by far the easiest achieve I've done so far. :smiley:-Raven

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Comment by PureArcus

Just wanted to add my 2 cents here. I'm on Bleeding Hollow and I started on Friday Nov 17th,2017. I took note of which Fisher friend that was up each day for the last 2 weeks and have noticed a pattern. The days they are live is different but the order in which they have spawned over the last two weeks has not changed. Here is the pattern I got:

Each tier of friendship requires 8,400 rep, which equates to 112 unique items.

To become Best Friends with a Fisherfriend you need 42,000 rep equating to 560 unique items.

Fisherfriends take all unique items even after hitting Best Friend status, so be careful when turning in items when close to Best Friend status.

You need a grand total of 710 unique items for each Fisherfriend to obtain Best Friend status and purchase their 2 specific items.

Happy fishing!

Comment by kubo11241

Ok guys. Can somone tell me if this achievement will be still possible to do in pre-patch BfA and BfA itself? Or will it be like with Margoss?

I appreciate your help.

Comment by DaggersEdge

I was leary to continue this achievement so late, but I got in a premade group with consistently 4-10 people and it worked! I got Best Friend and all the toys from a Fisher Friend in an hour and a half. It did not feel that different from a 40-man fishing raid. People got the "coins" quickly to toss in so there was not much down time in between.

Comment by vaycraft

My tomtom is acting weird so I thought I would share the code that works for my tomtom